A Chinese gangster takes a shine to a street-smart kid
because they both served in the same army regiment. He gives him the job of bodyguard for his
headstrong daughter. When she learns her
father is being muscled out of his business by an upstart Japanese rival, she
and her bodyguard set out to take him down.
The Godfather’s Daughter Mafia Blues starts off well enough. The scene where our hero gets into a barroom brawl because his buddy insults a nightclub singer has a couple of laughs. (“She's raping my ears!”) The back and forth between them and the gangster nightclub owner is pretty funny too. At one point, the gangster’s men poison their fish, and our heroes set out to avenge them. I mean, when’s the last time you saw a movie about people going on a Death Wish because of some fish? (Does that make it a Fish Wish?)
Once our hero takes his post as the Godfather’s daughter’s bodyguard, it all goes downhill. It doesn’t
help that the daughter grates on the nerves almost instantly. Most of the fights and shootouts are weighted
towards the end, and when we finally get around to them, they're nothing write
home about. If only the filmmakers had
kept the playful tone of the early scenes, this might’ve been a winner.
AKA: The Godfather’s
Daughter Mafia Blues.
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